SQL Server Premier Field Engineer Posts / Rants..

SQL Server 2008 is released but a lot of users who have installed Visual Studio 2008 are having problems installing SQL 2008. The error message a lot of users are seeing is : Rule "Previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008" failed. A previous...

Pre-order Windows 7 today at Microsoft Store . You'll get it for at least half off and be one of the first to get it. Hurry, quantities are limited .* It's pretty simple Windows 7 is coming on October 22, 2009. Here's an easy way to get it fast...

VS 2008 SP1 is released and can be downloaded here.. This should now fix the errors that were encountered while installing SQL Server 2008 RTM as mentioned in my previous blog post.

I recently came across this error " Difference of two datetime values caused an overflow at runtime" when I open the performance_dashboard_main_report. Thanks to Keith Elmore for providing the fix and allowing me to post this here. This is a caused...

In the past there have been many instances where the SQL Server (database engine) has become unresponsive which could result in users / administrators not being able to connect to the server to troubleshoot issues etc. SQL 2005 has a new feature called...

SQL Server 2008 CTP-4 is officially released. Get it here https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer

SQL Server 2008 CTP 5 is released and can be downloaded here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3BF4C5CA-B905-4EBC-8901-1D4C1D1DA884&displaylang=en http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer

I came across a great whitepaper written by the SQL Server Storage Engine team and can be downloaded here http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/onlineindex.mspx

The first public CTP of Katmai will be available for download from http://connect.microsoft.com/sqlserver . The name for the next release of SQL Server™: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, formerly code-named SQL Server “Katmai,” and the delivery of the first...

As you all might know this years teched is being hosted in Orlando. For those who are unable to attend the event in person feel free to visit http://virtualteched.com/Pages/default.aspx

A database restore from a backup is a repair / recovery feature and not a high availability feature. If you are running a mission-critical system and if your database requires high availability, then please look into various H/A features available with...

SQL Server 2008 SP2 was released September 29'th 2010. You can download Service Pack 2 from the locations below: SQL Server 2008 SP2 SQL Server 2008 SP2 Expiress SQL Server 2008 SP2 Feature Packs